Peter Holland, Linacre Professor of Zoology at Oxford University, will be talking at Chipping Norton Literary Festival on Sunday about his book The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, £7.99) Described as ‘a modern tour of the animal kingdom’, beginning with the question of what animals are, and new views on their evolutionary relationships, the free talk at 10am in the town hall is one of several sponsored by Oxford University Press.